1 Why me?

He woke up to the same empire his mother had ruled for a couple decades. He had never had to work for anything. Everything was given to him to a certain extent ever since he was born. Truth is he enjoyed his life because of his father but at the same time he also wanted to prove himself to that man whom he had never met formally.

"Prince Shadow your mother calls for you to meet your tutor. She says you must begin training in either martial arts or magic. She says to only choose one because it lead to your father's downfall when he had worked hard for both."

"First off tell her don't tell me what to do. I am my own man and I wish to do what I want.

"Listen here you arrogant brat remember it is because of the lady's mercifulness that you have a home. If I was her I would let you starve in the streets."

As he had left the room the prince stayed in his bed. At the age of 15 anyone in a royal family must work hard to better there society.

The prince was only 11 but he was the black sheep in a royal family and was considered weak even among peasants. The royal family was made up of more than twenty or so kids. His father had been a commander forced to serve the queen after a conquest of his kingdom. His father's name was Black. To save the kingdom he served, he had offered up his life in a binding soul contract. This contract made for anything and everything he swore to to be upheld. After taking down multiple smaller kingdoms and villages in the name of marona, the last order she gave was for him to take his own life. Since it was believed that he would be able to go over the highest level in Ademar, which was the continent they resided on. The queen decided on that way of execution.

Shadow wasn't like most of the royal family believing they were great just by being born. He was also the only kid from his fathers line. The Queen only allowed him to fuck her to carry on a gift that he had. When it was found out that he had not inherited strong magic potential and had weak potential as both mage and fighter, he was thought to be useless waste of space. The queen had only kept him because he was smarter than most individuals with keen learning ability. He had a photographic memory able to memorize and try to learn anything he looked at. Since the Queen was the type who loved for pain and suffering she had made his father slice his own throat over his barely 3-year-old son.

He hated the woman that he had to call mother. Usually just calling her Mara behind her back or under his breath. After sitting for awhile thinking bout the revenge he would want if he could, he had he finally got up. Shadow was about 5 feet with a skinny frame yet somehow still muscular for his age. He had an average face with dark black hair and even darker eyes.

Even though all of the royal family hated him, the queen still gave him a private tutor in case he showed the ability to use spirit magic or black magic which was even rarer. This was because spirit magic was considered the strongest even when you had weak potential. It was called spirit magic but truthfully spirit magic was just a way to actually take in energy in a purer form even causing breakthroughs in a short period of time and other special uses. The thing was there were only about 5 users on the continent of Ademar and none were now in the kingdom since the demise of Black.

Shadow left out his dreary dark room into the bright furnished hallway of the castle. The castle was one of the best looking castles on the continent. It was big enough to fit a small village and maybe even more. Designed to be a maze in case an enemy attacked you would see doors that lead to nowhere and staircases spiraling everywhere. Even royalty needed a guide half the time. Only the maids and butlers who lived there and worked there 24/7 new all the routes. Of course the queen also new since it was built through her management and also the true king which was now dead. Through every conquest she did she would add on more to castle, saying it was good luck. Truth was she knew the more conquests she did the bigger threat they were, which would make the bigger kingdoms ally and attack.

Shadow knew most of his way around the castle through memory but even a small village taken over was considered a conquest to the queen. So, there were a lot of times he would come upon new work. "I wonder when she'll stop. "The castle is running out of room to grow and all the other strong kingdoms are getting jumpy." He said aloud.

"Whenever all our enemies are slain and hang is when will stop. Hopefully you'll end up along with them brat."

"Minister Doja,! Sorry I didn't see you I should've bowed. I'm very sorry let me move to make way for your beautiful presence." He said, wanting to kill himself for talking like a coward.

"Don't worry I'll just let your teacher give you a couple lashing when you go there today you'll be alright. It builds character in disgusting beings like you." She said this as she walked away at a pace that almost seemed inhuman.

Shadow wasn't dumb he didn't put his pride over his revenge. He knew he had to first lurk and get stronger before enacting a plan to get what he wanted. He finally came upon the large courtyard where his tutor was waiting.

"I know I'm disgraced for running from the last battle but now I have to teach someone who isn't even worth two peasants, this is too embarrassing. Anyway will begin with testing what magic you'll be able to use. Usually after we would get straight to seeing if you rather learn martial arts as a fighter or be a mage, but since your a prince I'll have you learn who we should fear in organizations and kingdoms. Will also learn about spirit demons since that might be the only way for you to get stronger with no potential. You'll also learn other things which will take you till about the end of the night. There will be no breaks so don't ask if I have to suffer than you do too."

"What about to use the bathroom and eat."

His mentor put on an angry face ready to pummel him with fireballs. "You may use the restroom but you won't eat." He said this as he gave a gut punch to the kid in less than five seconds.

All shadow could think was why me, why do I have to go through this torture.